Creating Change
Change doesn’t just happen
Even with a compelling strategy and committed teams, the change you need is not guaranteed. Culture can make up for many inadequacies, but you need to give it the best opportunity to thrive.
Creating the change you want
Create the change you want:
- Form an agreed position on the extent change is required.
- Prioritise activities based on risk vs reward.
- Accelerate change so 80% of goals are reached 20% sooner.
Forming an agreed position on the extent of required change, needs leadership and team work. My LIPS (Leadership, Infrastructure, People and Systems) diagnostic tool and my facilitation skills – to provide a reality check – pave the way to an agreed set of change initiatives.
Cost-benefit or risk vs reward analysis needs thoughtfulness and the ability to quantify intangibles. My many years of experience in this field allow me to provide the team the direction needed to get this job done.
With risk vs reward in hand, the final step is to place each change initiative on the risk vs reward quadrant planning model (see below) to prioritise those to be planned immediately, those that need probing for clearer direction and those that can be picked off one by one as resources are available. The rest are parked and reviewed periodically.
GATEWAYS and SIGNALS
Irrespective of whether change initiatives are planned, probed, picked or parked, implementing a gateway system to check progress and adjust your approach will also be critical. Just like a sales funnel, I help your team in developing a structured funnel of change initiatives, incorporating exit gateways at each stage, from concept through design, implementation, and lessons learned. I also assist your team to establish signals to monitor environmental changes that may require a change of plan. Similar to risk vs reward, signals can be difficult to measure, yet can be critical. My experience in quantifying the difficult to measure, is another opportunity to add value to your team.